The Short Story Brasserie

The Short Story Brasserie has quickly risen in the ranks on OpenTable’s Diners’ Choice Lists by landing top ten entries in two lists.  OpenTable is the website that powers the restaurant’s online reservations. 

The Diners’ Choice lists are created based on thousands of ratings from OpenTable diners.  It is a great honor that our guests’ reviews have put us into the top ten in these categories:

• Notable Wine List               # 2
• Fit For Foodies                  # 10

The Short Story Brasserie won the Best Entrée category at the Granville Rotary Club’s eighth annual Granville Culinary Festival that was held on January 25th, 2009 at the Cherry Valley Lodge in Newark, Ohio.  More than a dozen top chefs and restaurants from central Ohio participated in the festival including The Longaberger Company, Granville Inn and The Cherry Valley Lodge.

Executive Chef Chad Lavely prepared the Wild Mushroom “Chicken and Dumplings” that are available as a hot small plate in the restaurant’s current menu.  The Dirty Little Secrets truffles were also presented in the Desert Category and were very well received by the attendees.

We’re excited to annouce that Columbus Monthly magazine has found The Short Story Brasserie to be one of the Best New Restaurants in Columbus.   They found our menu to be “lively, well executed” and that we give, “serious attention to the wine list.”

John Marshall reviews The Short Story Brasserie in the January, 2009 issue of Columbus Monthly Magazine and says “…this is a menu certainly worth trying in a setting that’s charming, so give it a shot.”  January’s issue of Columbus Monthly Magazine is available on newsstands now.

Columbus Alive reviewed The Short Story Brasserie and found us to be “quaint yet impressive” and remarked that “the food is terrific.”  You can read the complete review here.  Columbus Alive is a weekly entertainment magazine and website serving central Ohio.

The Ohio Magazine / Ohiomag.com reviewed The Short Story Brasserie in its October 2008 issue and found us to be “… cozy, clever and creative and the kind of place you plan to return to…”.  You can read the entire review here.

The  Columbus Dispatch recently interviewed our owner James Housteau for its “On Restaurants” column.  The Dispatch found that our ”Elegant brasserie brings big-city cuisine, extensive wine list to Granville.”  You can read the full article here.

Granville Sentinel

New restaurant serves courses one chapter at a time
EVELYN FROLKING • Contributing Writer • July 16, 2008

When his mother gave him a gift of Ernest Hemingway’s collected short stories, James Housteau spent his youth traveling the world vicariously through the author’s imagination.
 Now, a father of two and owner of the Wine Cache on River Road, Housteau is writing his own short story in a different sort of way. Housteau opened The Short Story, a new restaurant, an American brassiere, on Friday.

Granville, Ohio – July 8, 2008 – A new restaurant recently opened in Ohio differentiating itself by serving up fine food and wine in the spirit of Hemingway.

The Short Story Brasserie, a restaurant in Granville, Ohio, is proud to provide central Ohio and its surrounding areas with the opportunity to explore cuisine in the same way that Hemingway brought the sight, sounds and flavors of the world to his readers.